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Rinse and repeat. Collins’ confidence is completely shot. He refuses to catch the ball under the bar and tries to fist it away, often this is inappropriate and puts us under unnecessary pressure. He is desperately trying to reset the narrative and command his area. However his self-doubt has...

Sakamoto vs Plymouth?

So many bad omens. Apparently Liam Walsh is in outstanding form for them. And Jordan Clark who has been on the winning side against us 14 times in his career is back. His last career goal was at Wembley against us.

The John Humphrey thing probably doesn’t belong here, it wasn’t so much a single tackle but a 90 minute series of fouls and kick during Charlton’s 0-0 draw at HR. During David Smith’s breakthrough season (1987-8). To my mind Smith never fully took his fullback on again after that encounter the...

Was a terrible challenge but - as I’ve said in the other thread I was less surprised that Sakamoto wasn’t sent off for kicking out after he was fouled. I don’t know if 55 refers to your birth year but if you don’t remember Summerbee on Froggatt, Megson on Emerson, or even Humphrey on Smith...

Yesterday’s ref has not shown a single red card all season. But before we get too agitated can I point out that Sakamoto gets sent off for his kick out after being fouled in 99% of games?

The problem is one has to play the next two games (and hopefully more).

Kitchin’s dithering when faced with the ball, and an onrushing Collins vs Burnley is the starkest example. The chaos around goal line clearances/scrambles vs Hull (Grimes and Latibeaudiere) and yesterday (Lati and MvE) might be said to be others.

I think he’s probably better than Wilson generally but given his performance at the end of last season and throughout this he is completely unselectable I’m afraid. His lack of confidence - and the resultant lack of confidence in him from the rest of the team - leads to overcompensation (his...

Long way to go before we start worrying about this….

Jay, would you like this polo or not?

… about media bias - as it’s usually eye of the beholder stuff but the BBC report of the West Brom game is a joke. Written almost exclusively about WBA with barbs about larger CBS crowds for Chelsea, Wasps and Bruce Springsteen; a very peculiar gripe about Rudoni “getting away with a foul” in...

See this article on the bbc yesterday. Ahead of the Easter games every single Championship club could still get either promoted or relegated or both. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckg1y7ddrpxo

1. Leeds, Burnley, Sheffield Utd (this division will be v v tough next season so getting rid of clubs w parachute payments is a good thing 2. Luton (see above) Cardiff and Stoke 3. Bham (as it’s done) Wycombe (wd love Wrexham to fail) and Stockport (so I can walk to an away ground for the...

Largely depends on the away club too. Sheffield United and famously Leeds last year insisted on fans only going to designated gangways from the start, others are more likely to take a “sit where you like” attitude (although you won’t sit wherever you are). My advice is to maybe head towards the...

Something I’ve NEVER understood about the discusssions about our ground is that the general legal principle that the responsibility for decontamination of land lies with the previous owner (original contaminator) of the land seems to be routinely ignored. When Ford closed their Leamington...

I suppose if he left we could go back in for van Nistelrooy. 😜

I took my dad to the Mahou lounge for his 80th birthday (home game vs Swansea). John Williams as the FPA guest of honour. He was a lovely, lovely bloke and was very kind to my dad. He admitted that his divided loyalties between Swansea and Cov meant he was hoping for a draw - which I understood...

Yesterday’s first goal was probably worse than the second. The main error was From Grimes who gave the ball away in precisely the manner and in exactly the place that we bought him to never give the ball away. That said Collins rushed miles off his line far too readily for *both* of the goals...